Here's the basic steps to being navigation with our software

1. Connect you positioning device (e.g. GPS, AIS via pilot plug, etc.) to your computer
2. Use the device setup or device wizard to connect our software to your positioning device
3. Activate a route to enable additional navigation features other than position and COG (e.g. XTE, ETA, ETA List, etc.)

Navigational information is displayed in cells belonging to a layout. The basic information available for navigation include POS, COG, SOG, Trip, XTE, TTG WP, ETA WP, DIST WP, BEARING WP , TTG DEST, ETA DEST, DIST DEST, ETA LIST, TRUE HEADING, MAGNETIC HEADING, and ROT.

Since there is so much information available and limited space to view it, you may prefer to create your own layout(s) using your preferred navigational information. There are also a number of options that control the formatting of the navigational information displayed in layout cells.

1. You can specify the format for latitude and longitude in the general options
2. You can turn of the display of the units (e.g. km/h, kts, etc.) in the layout cells for maximum real estate for display of the numerical values so they are as large as possible. In this case, the units are displayed in the title for the layout cell.This option is avialable in the general options.
3. You can change the units that each navigational information is displayed in. For example you can choose to have speed show in knots, distances in nautical miles and cross track errors in feet.
4. You can choose the colors used to display the navigational information in the text cells. Use the color options to specify the colors used to display the navigational information.

See also real-time GPS tracking, eta calculations, AIS, dual positioning, and parallel indexing